TABLE TALK.

Auckland Star, Volume XXVI, Issue 73, 27 March 1895, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

1 ''-'..- > " B_aut_-_. weather. No rain ye _ ' "Graphic "published to-day. Opera season drawing to a close. .Ib is'said bhab J. L. Sullivan is no. dead. "La Cigale " ab the Opera House to"nighb.'. - - ' The balk of the town—the robbery at;the Miipoum. Of bwo evils some people do their best to choose both. r. Grand Waxwork Museum open daily in Queen-street. The Civil Sittings of the Supreme Courb are going on. -.. ■' ' ■ ■ ■ -'■''■ '; • Sir George Whitmore lefb Auckland for ,-- Napier yesterday. The Bishop of Melanesia will preach.at St.-Paul's tonight.: . ' , The Kawakawa shopkeepers have agreed fco-observe Saturday. -The Hon. Mr Ward has arranged to spend Easter in Paris. Entries for.the Easter lawn tennis tournament close on Monday. .'.-..' . ..:•:,'" - .^-; Views of the RimutakaMountain railway in bhis week's "Graphic." This peek's "Graphic" contains:-'some beautiful views of the Nihotapu Falls. Several" persons havo/ been killed during the heavy gales prevailing in England. The value of the property, stolen from the Museum has nob yeb been estimated.' The, Victoria Rifles an_the; City Guarda were inspected in the Drill-shed lasb nighb. . All things come to him:; who waits;] bub nob if he expects to taka a seat while he waits. . _ - * ■ ■■'• ?; The Bishop of Melanesia lecturos tomorrow evening in the City Hall on Melanesia. . . • The weigh bridge on Queen-streeb Wharf will be closed on Friday and Saturday nexb for repairs. - The Kauri Timber Company is shipping 50,000 feeb of Arab-class timber to London by the Ophelia. » y .The late; MrlW. P. .'. Moat was buried this afternoon, the Masonic fraternity being well represented. , The 'United' Dairymen's Cricket Club play the Opera Company's eleven bhis afternoon in the Domain. Mr Guinness, M.H.R., is said to have been retained by the Midland, Railway Company as junior counsel. ' ' The North Shore Amateur Athletic and Cycle Club hold their fifth carnival ab the . North Shore on Saturday next. The Mariposa, from San Francisco, is expected to arrive in port to-morrow with, the English and American mails.' Mr "Harrow, of the Lake, left by the Tarawera for Sydney to-day, and will probably go on-to South Africa and England. Guest {trying to cut a tough fowl)":, This chicken would have been much better, landlord, if ib had been served as an omelet. Tell us not in mournful numbers: '• , Life is but an empty dream. ......-; When we've had mince pie and, doughnuts, Turkey, cake, and real ice cream. ;-■•■ What we want,' said the party with bhe lawn mower, 'is a man who can make a blade of grass grow where twogrew before. '~ ' , '-' ': : ','.y '..-''-'■ ',■,-',;.;'.''.'.:'-'-" . 'Delegates of> the Women's .Christian Temperance Union reburned from.Welling- : ton, furnish, their report* of' the Convention bo the local meeting to-day. _ Minnie: Tho professor is somowhab ego* tietical. He plays nothing bub his own ■mnsio.. May: You-do'him injustice. He is too modest to atfcempb .afirsbrclasseom-: position. ■ -'■ ' ~ "'-"■■...• . Mr-James" Keeley,; of Cambridge Weß,---has written to Captain. Brbun, the ento-v mologisfc, prf-posing.a scheme for importing..'.' into New Zealand the European insecteating bats. ..". Plankington:', I understand thab you-had to go to law aboub that property that* was left you. Have you a smart lawyer ? Yon Bloomer: You beb I have. He owns bheV property now. , . The Canterbury Liberal Association passed a. resolution lasb nighb expressing satisfaction wibh bhe Government's decision to send.-a representative to the Monetary Conference. ■ '". .' S' N Eager Maiden: Well, Reginald, whab did papa say ? Rejected Suitor (aboub to depart): lb cannob be.expressed in words. All that I can tell you is that his answer gave me great pain. Schoolmaster: lb is all very well for you to say bhab you did nob.bave time to geb your lesson, but there is one thing I should like to ask you—Young Lady Pupil:. Bub, sir. bhis,is so sudden. Pabienb: Can you tell me, doctor, tha cause of baldness ? Phy. ician : Nothing easier, sir. Ib is due to the -falling oub of the hair. Will you pay now, or shall I pub it down to your account ? Mr W.' 8.. Edwards, the well-known Wellington solicitor, is of;opinion that there is. nothing in the Shop and Shop Assistants' Acb to prevent licensed victuallers selling tobacco and cigars. „■ * I think Miss Smith and Mr Jones* musb be engaged; thoy have had their portraits taken together.1 * Indeed ? lam glad to hear it. * I knew when I introduced them bhab she would be baken with bim.' | Schoolmate: ' Why do you never: touch your piano 2' Miss Thumper: - We're-huy- ! ing ib, on instalments.' 'What diference does thab .m#ksl' - * I'm afraid,.-'-if .. paw v should hear me play he'd stbpi paying. 5 '1 wonder why; Maxim's flying machine is 80 long about getting out ?'. queried bhe scientific boarder. *As near as I can figure it out,' said . the cheerful idiot, 'the trouble seems to bo a defective flaw.' A Presbyterian clergyman,, the Rev. W. Mcßae, has arrived in the colony deputed by the " Scotsman" and other leading : papers to obtain information regarding land \ settlement in New Zealand and the financial affairs of the colony. ' Mrs Asquith,.the wife of the Home Sec-■ i retary, haß a passion for visiting gaols and prisons, and has explored Portland.' She takes great interest in women convicts, and has bad some: curious and embarrassing conversations with many of them. .The chairman of a prosperous butter factory in the . Taranaki province informed acorrespohdenbof bhe Hawera "Star"that they are only paying out 2id per gallon for milk at presenb, and he doubts whether ib will be prudent to conbinue bhat beyond this month. .'A lady wanted to give a fancy ball. After the invitations were sent' out, she was beseigod with letters, requesting heri. to allow: ordinary evening dress. She diplomatically replied that she wished to give a fancy ball, bub that any lady over thirty _ya might come ,in evening drees. Her ball? was a brilliant success! Ab their meeting last night .the members of the Auckland Women's Liberal League unanimously agreed,thab the,present marriage laws in New Zealand operate unjustly and ought to be adjusted on the principle/of equality and economic independence ot men and women,'. and that, the Parliamentary disability of women be removed.